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Privacy-Enhancing BCH Tool Cashfusion Begins Working Behind the Scenes

25.11.2019
This week Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponents have been celebrating the fact that 187,212 BCH ($40 million) has been shuffled since the Cashshuffle platform launched in the last week of March. Moreover, on Saturday, Electron Cash developer Jonald Fyookball announced the highly anticipated Cashfusion...

What’s Really Private in Crypto? Research on Grin Raises Questions

25.11.2019
Following a report last week on the anonymity features of grin, one big question emerged: What is privacy in crypto, anyways?

US Congress Wrestles With Financial Technologies and Data Privacy

23.11.2019
U.S. Congressional Fintech Task Force questions industry experts on consumer data privacy in financial services

Grin’s Mimblewimble Privacy Model Under Threat After Alleged Break-In

23.11.2019
Despite Grin’s backers claiming that the newly discovered flaws were already well documented, the platform’s overall reputation seems to have taken a severe beating

US Deputy Treasury Secretary: Crypto Raises Questions on Self-Government

22.11.2019
Digital currencies can shift some functions usually performed by the government to the private sector, the U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary argued

Human Rights Foundation: Stablecoin Privacy Is ‘Extremely Lackluster’

22.11.2019
The Human Rights Foundation has published its analysis of major stablecoins’ privacy tooling and censorship resilience, stating that stablecoin privacy is “extremely lackluster”

New Cypherpunk Podcast Debuts Discussing Cryptoanarchy

22.11.2019
The Cypherpunk Bitstream podcast hosted by cryptoanarchists @thefrankbraun and @TheRealSmuggler has just released its second episode. The show compassionately reaches out to those listeners tired of the coercive “statist-quo” and explores how anyone can use cryptographic technology...

Cypherpunk Holdings Acquires 4.5% Stake in Firm Behind Privacy-Centric Wasabi Wallet

22.11.2019
Cypherpunk Holdings has completed an equity investment worth $337,500 in zkSnacks, the firm behind the privacy-focused crypto wallet Wasabi

Global Protests Reveal Bitcoin’s Limitations

21.11.2019
Protesters across the globe are testing out bitcoin and other decentralized technologies – then promptly discovering their limitations

Maker of Wasabi Bitcoin Wallet Valued at $7.5M in First Equity Round

21.11.2019
The privacy-centric Wasabi Wallet, launched by zkSNACKs in 2018, just raised its first equity investment from Cypherpunk Holdings, a publicly-traded Canadian fund

Tor Project Now Accepts Bitcoin Over Lightning Network

20.11.2019
Anonymous network Tor now accepts Bitcoin donations via the Lightning Network

Grin Devs Respond: Mimblewimble Privacy Isn’t 'Fundamentally Flawed'

19.11.2019
The devs behind privacy coin Grin argue that claims to have broken its privacy coin are sensational and unsubstantiated

Researcher Breaks Mimblewimble, Deanonymizing 96% of Grin Transactions

18.11.2019
The Mimblewimble privacy technology used by cryptocurrencies such as Beam and Grin is broken. That’s the claim of researcher Ivan Bogatyy who has published a report documenting his findings. In it, he reveals how he was able to deanonymize 96% of all Grin transactions just by running a node...

Researcher Breaks Grin’s ‘Privacy’ Spending Just $60 Per Week

18.11.2019
A researcher was able to uncover 96% transactions of Mimblewimble’s privacy-centric coin Grin using $60 per week on AWS

Visa Works on Blockchain System for Joint Computation of Large-Scale Private Data

18.11.2019
Visa is working on a blockchain-based system for joint policy-compliant computation of large-scale private data

An Army of Bitcoin Devs Is Battle-Testing Upgrades to Privacy and Scaling

17.11.2019
Almost 200 developers are reviewing bitcoin improvement proposals that could usher in enhanced privacy and scalability for the premier cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Traders Are Finding Creative Ways to Avoid KYC

17.11.2019
Cryptocurrency traders on Bisq are using Revolut to buy and sell bitcoin without the need for KYC/AML. The decentralized, peer-to-peer marketplace allows anyone to buy or sell cryptocurrency via a range of payment processors and traditional banking services. With Localbitcoins now a twisted...